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Updated: June 1, 2025
There came a sudden shout from the floor above, and on the heels of it a shock-haired youth in pyjamas burst into the apartment. 'Now what? said James. 'By the way, Miss Herrold, my fiancee; Mr Briggs Paul Axworthy Briggs, sometimes known as the Boy Novelist. What's troubling you, Paul? Mr Briggs was stammering with excitement. 'Jimmy, cried the Boy Novelist, 'what do you think has happened!
"I wonder what those two find to talk about," speculated Belle. "Mary has no conversation at all, and Axworthy hasn't much more." "Perhaps he takes it out in looking at her. By the way, Belle, when are you going to appear in the new dress I gave you that fifty dollars to buy? I am quite tired of the mauve tea gown." My wife glanced over her shoulder to make sure that Grandma was out of hearing.
She'll insist on knowing my dreams next!" "Perhaps you mesmerize her." "If I did, I'd make her keep away from me! I could stand it all better if I thought she really cared a straw for me, but I have the feeling that she regards me merely as a basis for supplies." "We can only trust, then, that the basis may be speedily transferred to Axworthy!"
When Edward Anderson, Axworthy, and their set, broke through rules, it was with the understanding that the second boy in the school would support them, if he durst. The summer and the cricket season brought the battle of Ballhatchet's house to issue.
While anxiously seeking some note of explanation, they heard a step, and Sam Axworthy entered, speaking fast and low in apology for not having sooner appeared, but he had been thoroughly upset; as indeed he looked, his whole appearance betraying the disorder of the evening's dissipation, followed by the morning's shock. Most unfortunate, he said, that he had not returned earlier.
Tom considered whether to secure the presence of a clergyman, but suspected that this would put Axworthy on his guard rather than soften him, and therefore only wrote to the chaplain, begging him to hold himself in readiness for a summons to the Hotel Dieu, whither he drove rapidly back with his diplomatic friend, whom he wrought up well-nigh to his own pitch of expectation.
"David, who do you suppose that was with Mary?" I had been up in the air with George Washington, surrounded by "First in War, First in Peace, etc.," in letters of fire, and I was unwillingly recalled to earth. "Haven't the remotest idea. Hope she hasn't given Axworthy the slip." "I'm only hoping that he has not given her the slip.
The money was all in sovereigns, except one five and one ten-pound note, and Edward Hazlitt, the clerk of the Whitford Bank, was called to prove the having given the latter in change to Mr. Axworthy for a fifty-pound cheque, on the 10th of May last.
You're not very happy in our house, and things will be worse for you next winter, with no Will Axworthy coming to see you, and no engagement to him in prospect. What do you think yourself that you're fit for putting reciting and cornet playing out of the question?" The young lady rested her chin on the palm of her hand and composed her face into a bewitching expression of profound meditation.
"I'm not breakin' my heart over Will Axworthy; didn't care nothing 'tall 'bout him, on'y I'd got used havin' him round, and I'd have married him if he asked me. I think a sight more of his cousin." "The boy we saw at the Fair?" "Yes. He's written me a lovely letter. Would you mind reading it aloud to me? Some of the big words I couldn't make out, and neither could Margaret.
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